SPEC Kit 348: Rapid Fabrication/Makerspace Services · 47
27. If your fabrication/makerspace services are at a point where you want to encourage growth in
users and community engagement, please indicate whether your library uses, plans to use, or has
no plans to use each of the outreach activities below. Please make one selection per row. If your
services are not yet at this point, continue to the next screen. N=27
Outreach Activities Uses Plans to use No plans to use N
Presentations 13 12 2 27
Build sessions 5 13 7 25
Show &Tell 6 17 2 25
New project nights 0 10 14 24
Meet &Greet 7 9 8 24
Food &Drink 1 10 12 23
Skill-building workshops 14 11 2 27
Competitions 1 13 11 25
Open make sessions 0 19 5 24
Maker fair participation 7 10 8 25
Other activity 7 3 2 12
Total Responses 16 26 17 27
If you selected Uses/Other activity above, please specify the activity. N=6
Article in university’s electronic newsletter “UToday”
Demonstrations/tables at campus events, display cases
Social media
We allow a maker-themed student group to use our space for meetings.
We participate in local events, though not Maker-Faire.
We’ve presented at local events such at the Tucson Festival of Books and we are also presenting at local, regional, and
national conferences to share our experiences.
If you selected Plans to use/Other activity above, please specify the activity. N=3
It would depend on staff availability, but we would be interested in nearly all of these activities.
We plan on having our student employees become ambassadors for this service and will encourage them to develop a
plan for outreach.
We will solicit faculty to involve our service as part of their ongoing curriculum. Our focus is on being an
academic support.
Additional comments N=2
The new makerspace has a soft opening in mid-June with a small ribbon cutting, and small reception for students and
Friends of the Library. When students come back for the fall semester, we will have a full slate of events associated with
the opening of the space.
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